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Populating dropdownlist in pageload dupliactes items

Hi, I'm want to populate a dropdownlist with this year and the next 5 years.
So in the pageload I have added the code as shown in the snippet.

This I had hoped would give me the list 2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013 but it actually only gives me a list of 2013 six times.

Can't quite work it out any help appreciated.

DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;
        int year = dt.Year;
 
        ListItem addYear = new ListItem();
        for (int i = 0; i <= 5; i++)
        {
            addYear.Value = Convert.ToString(year + i);
            addYear.Text = Convert.ToString(year + i);
            StartYear.Items.Add(addYear);
            
        }

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Pratima

DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;
int year = dt.Year;

for (int i = 0; i <= 5; i++)
{
ListItem addYear = new ListItem();
addYear.Value = Convert.ToString(year + i);
addYear.Text = Convert.ToString(year + i);
StartYear.Items.Add(addYear);

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naspinski

if you are declaring value and text to be the same thing, it is redundant. Also, if you are declaring them both to be the same, you do not need to declare them as items, you can directly add them as strings. A couple tricks to make things easier :)

fusioninternet

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Nice one, that did the trick
Thanks for the second reply, I did realise that I would only need to enter it once, but I am planning to have the text as 2008 and the value as 08., would this cause a major upset to the way you've just shown me?

Cheers
Steve

naspinski

to add them in seperately do like pratima said:

            ListItem addYear = new ListItem();
            addYear.Value = Convert.ToString(year + i).SubString(2,2);
            addYear.Text = Convert.ToString(year + i);
            StartYear.Items.Add(addYear);

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naspinski

or to keep it small again:

for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++)
  StartYear.Items.Add(new ListItem(DateTime.Now.AddYears(i).Year.ToString(), DateTime.Now.AddYears(i).Year.ToString().Substring(2, 2)));

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